From my first stint leading Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty — the iconic Cold War broadcaster turned 21st-century ...

In May 1958, the CIA’s Far East Division hatched a plan: recruit an attractive white woman to extract information from the ...

Dissidents resisting authoritarian regimes should be independent of the United States—and so should their media sources.

That was the holy grail of Soviet leaders, from Joseph Stalin to Leonid Brezhnev, during the Cold War. But the multi-generational, bipartisan leadership of American presidents from Harry Truman to ...

Cold War tensions bristle between Washington and ... Camp Century operated continuously between 1960 and 1964, and then during summers only until its closure in 1967. The station’s public ...

The rise of China as a great power, combined with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s assertive and nationalistic view of his country’s role in the world, has made U.S. policymakers see a return to the ...

Reagan oversaw an unprecedented Cold War arms build-up, a U.S.-backed genocide in Guatemala and covert and proxy wars throughout Central America. And yet Gorbachev and Reagan are now widely ...

Threads may not be the most popular war film, but its harrowing content is an immensely powerful testament to Cold War fears.

The Cuban Missile Crisis came close to unleashing nuclear war. During the 13-day standoff ... The event touched off an especially tense period of the Cold War. Three weeks after the crash ...

During the Cold War, it served as a headquarters for the Bulgarian Communist Party, hosting secret meetings, ideological training, and major state events. The huge mosaics inside, covering 937 ...